“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
“Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.”
“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.”
“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be
happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they
are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a
mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who
aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until
they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who
can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa,
people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.”
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter
it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the
betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the
morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and
love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's
bittersweet route.”
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a
wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no
institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible;
and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be
truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves
so damn seriously.”
“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic.
Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous
magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find
that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's
usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell
at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if
we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love
stay.”
“Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.
Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?
Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.”
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The
most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing
to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would
mean that security is out of the question. The words 'make' and 'stay'
become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love
you for free.” Still Life with Woodpecker
“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how
much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a
well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
~ Tom Robbins
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